Look at this face. What do you see? The face of a dreamer or an achiever? For thirty-five years, Diana Nyad has planned and persevered while others observed in wonder and disbelief as she pursued her dream to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. Even if you didn’t understand her dream, you had to respect her ambition to achieve it.

Competition in the workplace is fierce. Many professionals today are focused on building their credibility and visibility to get bettter opportunities. Whether you’re just starting to build your brand or have been at it for awhile (but not getting the results you want), building a strong play book and strengthening your mindset is critically important.

Know your audience. Less is more if you’re focused upward. Know what your […]

Mushroom Management is when a manager keeps his/her employees in the dark, provides very little guidance, feeds them a bunch of garbage about how important contributing is while harvestsing the best ideas for themselves.

Executives need to be especially mindful to shine a bright light on individuals and initiatives at all levels that drive the company to be […]

Ineffective managers make up approximately 51 percent of the management pool today; costing companies millions of dollars each year directly or indirectly. A top priority for today’s organizations is to build a cadre of leaders with the soft skills required to move teams through uncertainty.

Empathetic leaders are assets because they are better able to build trust and maintain relationships which is a critical part […]

Three things will kill a dream for you: overwhelm, frustration and isolation. By far, isolation is the worst condition of all.

Every day thousands of executives will stand on a critical path and make a career defining decision in a vacumn. They do it because they have the title and the authority to do so. And, in some instances, they’ve […]

“Pilots deprived of visual references while flying can quickly loose control of their aircraft and succumb to one of aviation’s biggest killers: spatial disorientation. This is a spot on analogy for what can happen to the executive that is building their role inside a new organization.”

Spatial disorientation is the mistaken perception of one’s position […]

When I partner with an executive for 60-90 days to help them evaluate and basically reboot their brand, I want to spend time evaluating the environment they work in. Sometimes a client decides that it’s time to do some inner work as in “What has avoiding difficult conversations cost them professionally?” or “How do they manage their own mindset when criticized by a peer?”

You cannot separate a real man from his values or his leadership skills. No where is this more apparent than when you watch a man with his children. Whether he’s watching his daughter take her first steps and catching her before she stumbles… Or, vigilantly guarding his infant son while he fretfully sleeps in a hospital NICU… Fatherhood is an important leadership role. .

Whether in sports or in executive leadership, every great champion will lose a game now and then. Last year, after losing in the first round of the French Open, Serena Williams vowed to return this year to fulfill her dreams. After that stinging defeat, she went 74-3, including titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the London Olympics and the season-ending WTA Championships.